Не верь, не бойся, не проси

О политике нагнетания страха - в журнале Time:

“People react to fear, not love,” explained Richard Nixon, a scaremongering maestro whose cries for “law-and-order” were a coded message to white citizens worried about black crime. “They don’t teach that in Sunday school. But it’s true.”
And no President has weaponized fear quite like Trump. He is an expert at playing to the public's phobias. The America rendered in his speeches and tweets is a dystopian hellscape. He shapes public opinion by emphasizing dangers—both real and imaginary—that his policies purport to fix.
“He is a master at it to a degree that I haven't seen,” says Barry Glassner, a sociologist at Lewis & Clark College and the author of The Culture of Fear. “His formula is very clean and uncomplicated: Be very, very afraid. And I am the cure.”
http://time.com/4665755/donald-trump-fear/

Как противостоять страху?

Напоминать людям о том, что они происходят не из трусливых. Именно такой путь был выбран знаменитым телеведущим Эдвардом Мэроу, чтобы побороть маккартизм.

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We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men -- not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/murrowmccarthy.html

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